SERVICES PROVIDED

Corporate strategy fit for a world gone digital.

Together we answer How would you be if you were born today? An answer we can communicate in three slides and <500 words. The answer directs our resources, tells us what not to do and informs corporate investment. We can consider a specific marketplace challenge or the whole business.

Digital products that delight customers and do better business.

I help online businesses and digital product teams ship better solutions to their customers. Products that are desirable, feasible and viable. I get major product initiatives setup for success by (re)-framing a clear brief, bringing cross-sector insights and ideas, and ensuring all the delivery teams are aligned.

Cyber security assured by governing one holistic programme.

I help business leaders understand their cyber risks, develop a holistic response and ensure the delivery of the mitigations. I bridge the business-technology communication gap. Cyber security thinking must become second nature. I help design out root causes not just shield the symptoms.

Technology investments setup for success

I help avoid what makes strong concepts fail: lack of shared vision, fantasy business cases, outsourcing of leadership (and delivery) to consultants and technology vendors, incomplete teams with no agreed method of working, poor governance… I coach sponsors and keep teams honest.

Cost base neatly reset by focusing on the business we want to be.

I lead painful cost reduction and reorganisation projects. I coalesce exec, finance, HR, legal and operational realities to find a plan that works. We focus on the ‘to-be’ to be then worry about how we change. Done with urgency and good nature; more honest broker than hatchet-man.

Entrepreneurial behaviours that simplify and accelerate.

Corporates tend to make things more complicated. Managers are often isolated from the implications of delay. I help teams focus on what’s important – customers, costs, execution – and hunt out solutions that give your employees the satisfaction of delivering results more often.